New Shipping dates

Steve,

Wonderful to hear that people are actually receiving their RPs. I hope they are everything we've expected and have the impact on promoting interest in programming that was intended.

However, unless you ordered yours before end of April, or happen to live in the UK, or are just lucky, all the dates being bandied about for June seem wildly optimistic.

After ordering and paying on March 3rd, I eventually got a fuzzily worded email stating a ship date in June. My experience w/qualified promises being what it is, I emailed the seller to confirm. After multiple emails they finally said "the system" still shows a ship date of mid-August (about 6 months).

Visionary aims, manufacturing and QA problems, "first come, first served", I get all that. And, I gather there is an enormous fan base for this project - I'm in support of it too. I bought this for my kids and when they're done w/it will donate it to their school. I guess an August delivery will still work - don't really have much choice. Summer being what it is they won't have learned programming by the time this latest (and I DO mean LATEST) ship date rolls around. But, really, if they'd had it in hand they could have learned basic programming in 6 months.

Sure hope these things work as promised once they arrive!

I truly do hope the June dates come to pass, but I wouldn't be placing any bets on it at this point.

Hello Cowboy,

I do live in the UK and I placed my order on the 29th February at around 12.30pm to give some idea of order / delivery times.

I do tend to agree with you, there is no way this is going to make it into schools for this year. Even if they were commonly available now, I suspect school budgets are set at the beginning of the year and this would mean no chance to by them en masse now.

It's a shame, if they had originally appeared in late November last year as originally hoped then I guess this would have been the year of the pi, but I think now 2013 is much more likely.

I did argue in the Pi forum that a cheap second hand machine would deliver a lot of the same benefits as the pi in the short term - I bought a second has base unit for £25 recently, I could have put Ubuntu, Mint etc on that and it would cover about 90% of what the Pi is being s'old' on. I know a full size machine is power hungrym, I know schools couldn't do the same as me and I know only the Pi would fit in my pocket, but I think in some circumstances the Pi could be the wrong choice.

I ordered my Pi March 2 (Order # 2053xx) from Newark in the USA. My expected ship date just changed from 14 August to 03 July.

Yet another data point.

Hi Pi People

I tend to agree Steve with regards to when the Pi will be available for schools, but with the commercial demand, as in the number of units on back order from Element14 worldwide (Cowboys post) even 1 pound ($AU2) from each sale could provide a substantial number of units for schools.

However I am a bit concerned with when my Pi will arrive when I ordered it a half hour earlier than Steve but on the other side of the world, the only update I have had stated mid June.

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My ship date is now June 18th moved up from the default August date. I ordered mine on 13 March with Newark USA. I hope they move the date in more!

Sometime over the weekend, the expected ship date changed from 3 July to 18 June. WoOt! Order date was March 2nd.

Hi Steve,

That doesn't look right to me, as you say that you ordered yours on March 2nd, and have been quoted a delivery date of 3rd July, whereas Butch Weber sstates (in a later post) that he did not order his until 13th Match (also with Newark USA) but has been given a ship date of 18th June.

It is even worse here in the U.K. as I ordered mine on 7th March and haven't been given a shipping date at all yet,other than a vague promise (some time ago now) of 'by the end of June'.

We are constantly being told that Pi's are being shipped strictly in a 'date of order' sequence, but that is not really looking to be the case here, although I appreciate that there may be a slight variation between different countries.

All I can really do however is to sit and wait patiently for a futher update.

I was a bit dismayed when my delivery date had changed from the default August time to the date in July. The June 18th date seems more in line with what others have been seeing recently. I'm not sure why it showed the July date, but I'm happy that I'll be receiving it much sooner. Now I need to get off my butt and finish off some SDR projects I'm working on so I can spend time tinkering with the Rpi.

Hello David,

Its actually worse than that. I just looked again and I mis-quoted the order date. The actual order date was March 19th! My delivery date continues to be June 18th.

Regards,

Butch

Hello David,

Its actually worse than that. I just looked again and I mis-quoted the order date. The actual order date was March 19th! My delivery date continues to be June 18th.

Regards,

Butch